using the rank, an SS-Gruppenführer was considered equal to a Generalleutnant in the Wehrmacht and was referred to as SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant...

correctly spelled Oberst-Gruppenführer to avoid confusion with the more junior rank of Obergruppenführer. Oberst-Gruppenführer was considered the equivalent...

"senior group leader", the rank of Obergruppenführer was senior to Gruppenführer. A similarly named rank of Untergruppenführer existed in the SA from...

SS Honour – and rank leaders (SS-Ehren- und Rangführer). SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer (literal: SS-Colonel group leader), short SS-Obstgruf, was from 1942...

Each Gruppe extended over several regions and was commanded by a SA-Gruppenführer who answered only to Röhm or Hitler. Under Röhm as its popular leader...

second general officer rank of the SS and ranked between Oberführer and Gruppenführer. This changed with the rise of the Waffen-SS and the Ordnungspolizei...

Office I, dealing with the personal affairs of the Führer. He was also a Gruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK). Martin Bormann – Reichsleiter...

(20 April 1943 – 14 May 1943) SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein (14 May 1943 – 13 September 1943) SS-Gruppenführer Bruno Streckenbach (13 September 1943...

used at lower levels, regardless of experience or rank; for example, a Gruppenführer was the leader of a squad of infantry (9 or 10 men). The first example...

the spelling of the new service rank “SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer” (quotation: “SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer” (en: SS-Supreme-Group leader]), in order to avoid...